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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at a joint press conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Moscow that Greece could become “a major transit country for the whole of the south of Europe and not only the south but maybe for central Europe.” If Greece joins Russia’s new Turkish Stream pipeline project “it will get good money from transit, we are talking about hundreds of millions of euros every year just for transit, just like that,” Putin said. cep energy expert Moritz Bonn, however, notes that the Turkish Stream pipeline needs to meet the requirements of the EU

Just shortly after the visit of Greek finance minister Varoufakis, ECB president Mario Draghi announced that the ECB will no longer accept Greek sovereign bonds as collateral for refinancing operations of banks at the ECB starting February 12, 2015. cep-finance expert Bert Van Roosebeke sees this as a clear vote of no-confidence by the ECB against the Greek government. "After days of increasingly abstruse proposals for funding the Greek sovereign debt by third parties, the ECB seems to have lost its patience. The ECB shows very clearly that it does not want to be caught up in the political dispute

A YouGov survey for The Times newspaper, taken in the two days after British Prime Minister David Cameron set out a proposed EU reform deal, showed 45 percent of Britons would vote to leave the EU compared with the 36 percent who want to remain, Reuters reported. European Council President Donald Tusk had published the draft terms for a new EU membership deal for Britain on Tuesday. The YouGov survey found that just 22 percent of voters agree that the deal is a good one, while 56 percent think the proposed changes to Britain's EU membership terms do not go far enough, Newsweek reported. Cameron said

that just 22 percent of voters agree that British Prime Minister David Cameron’s EU reform deal is a good one, while 56 percent think the changes do not go far enough, Newsweek reported [...] ’t just move the goalposts when it misses it,” Bloomberg reported. British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a phone conversation agreed that there is “genuine [...] reported. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said “We must do everything for Britain and the British people ... to stay in the European Union. But of course not at just any condition,” Reuters

The EU Commission has no plan ‘B’ in place if Britain votes to leave the European Union, EU Economc Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said according to Reuters. “The day we start talking about a plan `B' is the day we no longer believe in our plan 'A'. I have just one plan. The United Kingdom in a united Europe,” Moscovici said in a French television interview. Britons will vote June 23 on whether to remain a member of the EU. “If there was a vote for Great Britain to leave the EU, it will be an inversion of the historic dynamic of the past years which has seen more countries join the bloc

restriction on the freedom of movement of workers will be possible. Free access to the EU internal market is, however, unlikely to be achievable by way of such a treaty. For the EU, Brexit is more than just an

In the digital age copyright-protected works are often made available and used cross-border especially via the internet. Service providers want to offer their services across the Member States just as consumers wish to access works from other Member States. Different exception rules in the various Member States can be an obstacle in cross-border situations.

In cep's view, the increased inclusion of land use, land use change and forestry into EU climate policy is appropriate because GHG removals are just as important for climate protection as GHG emissions. At the same time, Member States should be permitted to set off emission-reducing land-use changes and afforestation programmes without restriction when they reach their GHG emissions limits. <a name="_GoBack"></a>